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Situ lOust Guilts
VOLUME 66, NUMBER 20
WEST, TEXAS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1956
S3.00 PER YEAR—10c Per COP1
of Cattle Ticks and Politics
By DORIS HENDERSON
Read in the paper that the
Naval Research Larobatory has
announced that they are ready
to send a rocket to the moon.
This first one will only carry
about four pounds, but you can
be sure, once they get that four
pounds to the moon, they will
be sending people next.
I have thought about it con-
siderable, and I have decided
I'm not going to be one of those
1)*.; £e who sign up for the first
fti, jLiO the moon. I could be
thpjnihave already sold out, and
have no room available for me,
but my feelings won't be hurt.
No sour grapes involved. I don’t
want to go on the first trip to
the moon.
I have several good reasons.
First, the trip might be made
too soon, for I have vowed to
continue going to Texas-Okla-
homa football games until I see
Texas win. Texas hasn't shown
definite evidence of being able
to defeat Oklahoma, and sci
cnee has started plans on that
trip to the moon. It might take
science ten years to get that
rocket launched, but I'm not
willing to say that is enough
time for Texas to breed a big
enough strain of Longhorns to
stomp Big Red.
But I have other reasons. I
haven’t seen all of Texas as yet,
and I can't see any percentage
in rushing off to the moon to
sec something I haven’t seen,
when there is so much territory
in Texas to see first. I hate to
admit it but I don’t think I
have ever seen Tenaha Creek.
At least if I have seen it, I
didn’t know it, but from what
I hear about Tenaha, that is
possible. Lots of people have
seen it, and not known it. Sad,
Isn’t it?
Then it is not just a matter
Of seeing the towns in Texas
once, and having them stay put,
they just keep growing and get-
ting bigger, and from week to
week they change. I have been
to Austin, but not lately, and I
don’t think I would know the
town. Guess I shouldn’t refer to
It as a town, guess I had better ]
niove it up to the city class.
There are now 194,000 people
living there, and that should
make it a city. When I knew
Austin, some fifteen years ago,
there were just a mere 95,000
people in town. Seems kinda
strange that all those people
would decide to move in just
after I left.
They have built lots of new
highways and freeways in and
around Austin. The pictures I
have been looking at look as if
they are very expensive pieces
of road. Onlj thing worries me
is that they have ruined all
those "Dy-ways” that were so
interesting.
Another item right around
home that I haven’t seen is
these cock fights they supposed-
ly hold in Waco. I didn’t know
they held cock fights in Waco,
and I certainly never heard that
they held the nation’s biggest
annual cock fights. Besides see-
ing the fights, I have to find
out why we have not been get-
ting any publicity material
about them. We get information
about everything else, I don’t
know why we have been left off
their list.
Then someday I want to go
to Abilene and see if they really
have “five firey Chamber of
Commerce.” They may have six
now, since the five figure dates
back a couple of years. Most
towns have a Chamber of Com-
mrece, or at least a half of a
Chamber of Commerce, but any
town that has five is bound to
be worth investigating.
I might be able to forego all
of these items and take time off
to go to the moon if it weren’t
for the fact that I am positive
it is going to really rain in West
again, and I just have to be here
to see that. I heard the TV
weatherman say that the next
30 days hold no promise of rain,
and that the next 90 days will
probably be drier than normal.
Still, I have lived in Texas long
enough to know that if you
don’t like Texas weather all you
have faith, and besides that, it
“awhile” is quite awhile back
now, but 1 am pat:ent, and I
nave faith, an dbesiaes that, it
is just bound to rain.
The State Fair of Texas is not
going to carry rain insurance
this year, the first time since
about 1940. Which reminds us
that none but fools and strang-
ers predict Texas weather. There
have been lots of people move
into Dalh.s since 1940, which
could account for it.
There are also lots of Dallas-
' ites who are interested in the
Salado River. Salado means
salty, which the Salado River
water is not, and supposedly
Dallas water is not salty, only
it is . . . There are lots of
strange things in Texas I need
to find out about.
These are just a few of the
reasons that I feel that I had
better not sign up for that trip
to the moon. Of course, if they
are going to give free passes—
that would be another matter.
Slay and Matus Pace Trojan
Victory Over Rosebud
By LEO VRANA
Fullback Johnny Slay andl point to give the Trojans a 7-0
Halfback A. P. Matus paved the lead.
20 YEARS AGO.,,
It Happened in West
J. M. Tobola, manager of theltlemcn they have about 110
Best. Theater, was in Dallas on | acres in cotton and say they
Monday of this week and pur-1 will make about one bale to
chased' a new Western Electric I eight acres. Some of the best
Sound, which is to be installed
In the local theater with a new
way to a 14 6 victory over the
Rosebud Panthers last Friday
night. With their ace quarter-
back, Cecil Coffee, bottled up,
Matu? and Slay rose to the oc-
casion and gave West their first
win of the young 1956 season
Slay, the bull charging fullback,
picked up 88 yax-ds in 10 car-
ries to emerge the top runner
of the night. Matus was right
behind him with 73 yards in 11
carries. Matus scored the first
touchc-.own and Slay charged
into the end zone for the Tro-
jans’ last tally.
It was the Ti-ojans’ game goal
line defense that saved this one
for the Trojans. Twice they rose
to the occasion, paced by John-
ny and Raymond Kubala, to
stop the Panthers inside the
West 10 yard line. Johnny Ku-
bala paced the Trojans in the
line with his 13-year-old broth-
er not far behind. Slay and Lit-
tleton also looked good for West
on defense.
Rosebud won the toss and
elected to receive the kickoff.
With the aid of the wind Cecil
Coffee booted the ball out of
the end zone and the ball was
put in play on the Rosebud 20
On the first play Rosebud com-
pleted a pass to the West 45
yard line, 155 pound end Eli
Salazar making an unbelievable
catch while being covered like
a blanket by Coffee. With that
play arousing the already keyed
up Panthers, Schneider pound-
ed out 14 yards to the West 31.
The Trojans called time out to
try to stop the Rosebud drive.
On third and 5 yards to go
for a first, Kruse and big 240-
pound Glen Lightfoot spilled
Allen for a 12 yard toss. That
play stopped the drive and Reso-
bud punted to the West 14,
where Matus was naiUj in his
tracks.
Coffee, who was bottled up
all night, lost 4 yards. On the
next play he fumbled, one of
the five West made, and Rose-
bud recovered on the West 6-
yard line.
Rosebud received the kickoff
and started a drive of their own.
Paced by their fullback, 170-
pound Bill Schneider, they mov-
ed the bail to the West 27.
Schneider made 5, Newby xnade
2; with third and 4 Schneider
made 4 and a first down on the
West 17. Raymond Kubala re-
placed Kolacek ’in the Tx-ojan
lineup. On the next play he hit
Schneider causing him to fum-
ble and West recovered, stop-
ping the drive. It was one of
the key plays of the night.
It took the whole Panther
team to stop Slay after a 10-
yard pickup. West could not
move any further and was forc-
ed to punt. They got the ball
back on their own 31 with 52
•seconds left to play. The Tro-
jans took to the air and it al-
most cost them six points. The
first one was incomplete but
the next one was intercepted
and returned to the West 9 yard
line, where Coffee made the
tackle amidst 5 Panther block-
ers. Cecil was the last man be-
tween the runner and the goal.
Johnny Kubala hit Allen and
Jansky recovered the loose bail
as the half ended with West
leading 7-0.
The Trojans received the sec-
ond half kickoff but failed to
go and Coffee got off a 12-yard
punt in the wind and Rosebud
took over on the West 39. Sch-
neider made 10 yards and a
first down. McKncw made an-
other first down on the West
16. Jansky rose to the occasion
and stopped the ball carrier
after a scant 1-yard pickup.
Raymond Kubala made a fine
tackle on the next play, stop-
ping it for no gain. McKnew
made 5 and a pass in the end
zone was incomplete and once
again the Trojans had held back
the Panthers. After a couple of
first downs the Trojans punted
to the Rosebud 43 where they
were off to the races.
Newby broke in the clear
where he was caught from be-
hind by Donald Vrana on the
Rosebud was penalized to the west 39. He was injured on the
11 where it was fii'st down and, p]ay allci ]eft; tjle game. Schnei-
stopped j
Simplex machine
future.
in the near
W. H. (Uncle Billy) Wood re-
ceived a letter this week from
his granddaughter, Mrs. H. Hale
of Tegucigalpa, Monduras, Cen-
i *> T America, stating that she
|t r fid visit relatives in this sec-
and attend the Centennial
Dallas next month. Mrs. Hale
was formerly Miss Fay Wood,
and has many fi'iends in this
and the Abbott community. Un-
„ cle Billy says that he is anxious
to see his granddaughter and
^ also his great granddaughter,
who will accompany her moth-
er to Texas.
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On Monday of this week
thieves broke into the Gulf
warehouse for the second time
within the past two weeks, mak-
ing away with two cases of oil.
According to reports, three men
land in this section is where
these gentlemen are located,
and should the ravages of the
worms be anything like general
the indications are that their
work will cut quite a figure in
the cotton receipts this year.
• •
Miss Minnie Corley of Hills-
boro was the guest last week of
her cousin. Miss Willie Brown,
returning home Saturday eve-
ning.
• »
H. A. Rowley and family of
Mai’lin came up Sunday for a
visit with Mrs. Rowley’s moth-
er, Mrs. A. W. Glaze. Mr. Row-
ley says that crop prospects are
vei'y good in his neighborhood
and he is vei'y well pleased with
his location. He says though he
is glad to spend a few days with
goal to go. Lightfoot
the first play after a yard was
made, and believe me it was a
yard Glen made them work for.
On tlie next play the Kubala
brothers stopped it cold. The
Panthers picked up 2 yards on
third down and a fourth down
pass was incomplete and West
had made a brilliant stand.
Matus bi'oke loose for 13 yai'ds
and a West first down. On the
next play the fast moving Ma-
tus was given a big hole by the
Ti'ojan line and he picked up
18 yards. On the same identi-
cal play A. P. chalked up 14
more yards to the Rosebud 47.
It was a dazzling performance
by Matus. Coffee fumbled and
the drive fizzled as Rosebud re-
covered.
Cecil made amends by inter-
cepting an Allen pass and re-
turning it 10 yards to the Pan-
ther 45. Jansky rushed Allen
hard on the play, causing Allen
to throw in a hurry and Coffee
picked it off nicely.
A 15 yard penalty killed any
hopes for the Trojans and Cof-
fee got off a booming 55-yard
punt which rolled dead on the
Panther 10-yard line. The Tro-
jans got a break when they re-
covered a fumble on the 16. But
on the next play Slay fumbled
and Rosebud l'ecovered. The
Panthers made 4 yards and gave
the Trojans another fumble on
the 20. The Trojans muffed this
chance when Matus fumbled
and the Panthers recovered. The
der made 9 to the West 30. On
the next play he raced 21 yards
to the West 9 yai'd line where
Coffee made the stop. Schnei-
der, cn three plays punched
ever the goal to make it 7-6.
Schneider tried to ram over for
the extra point but Raymond
Kubala and Tommy Edwards
.-topped him shoi't of the goal
line.
In the fourth period the Tro-
jans took the kickoff and drove
for the clinching score. Johnny
Slay was the whole story. He
ran like Allen Ameche, Kosse
Johnson and L. G. Dupre rolled
up into one. On the first play
lie raced 20 yards right up the
middle. On the next play he
cut down the sideline for 35
yards to the 5-yard line. Then
he bulled his way 5 yards for
the score with Coffee doing the
honors on the extra point to1
make it 14-6 with 9:19 left to
play in the game.
The Panthers drove to the'
West 11 yard line but on a 4th
down try needing only 1 yard, I
the Kubala boys stopped Sch-|
neider for no gain and West i
took over. There wei'e no fur-
ther threats by either team and j
West came out with their first j
victory of the season and the j
hope for more to come.
Kellner Wins
“Easy Money”
White’s Contest
Frank Kellner, owner and
manager of White’s Authorized
Dealer Store here, has
named as one of the top win-
ners in his group for the big
White “Easy Money” The Sales
Contest, which closed Aug. 31.
Mr. Kellner, along with the
other top winners in his division
will be awarded a $500 cash
prize, plus an all-expense paid
trip to attend the SMU-Notre
Dame football game Sept. 22.
For the week end, these contest
wlnnei's will be guests of White
Stores, Inc., and will stay at
the Hilton Hotel in Fort Worth.
The winners were top volume
producei-s in their group, which
consisted of 145 Authorized Dea-
ler Stores. The “Easy Money”
Tire Sales Contest ran from Jan.
15 to Aug. 31.
Post Office Has
Ball Point Pens
Time marches on, and so does
Uncle Sam for he has finally
nodded his head, and given his
approval to the installation of
ball point pens in the Post Of -
fice.
The pens were installed in
West and in other McLennan
County Post Offices last week.
But don’t be tempted to take
one of the new pens, for there
is a $500 fine and a year in jail
price tag attached to each pen,
in case you’i’e caught walking
away with one. The government
pays about 19c for each pen, so
that is quite a nice profit they
would make. The pens are plain-
ly marked U. S. Post Office
Property.
Ink stained fingers Iron* the
scratchy Post Office pens are
now a thing of the past. It
would be nice if West could get
some action on its new Post
Office building, just so the pens
could have a proper setting, of
course.
Some people in West feel
West is entitled to a new build-
ing, ana the delay is getting to
be unreasonable. A suitable site
should not be that difficult to
locate, for it has been over a
year since the scai'ch was start-
ed.
Air Defense
Practice Alert
To Be Held Sun.
Henry Lednicky, Post Super-
visor has announced that the
Dallas Air Defence Filter Center
area will have a practice alert
Sunday, September 23, from 1:00
p. m. to 6:00 p. m.
All volunteers are requested
to report to the city hall by
1:00 p. m.
It is requested that more adult
volunteers be available for the
work.
Certificates of award for the
cmopletion of a pei'iod of train-
ing will be awarded.
Trojans Hosts To Diamond Hill
In Home Opener Tonight
Diamond Hill of Fort Worth, [ Diamond Hill enters the game
a AAA powerhouse, invades the | with a 1-0-0 record. They de-
been home of the West Trojans to-1 feated Decatur In their season
night. It will be the first home ! opener last week 25-0. The Tro-
game of the season for West.ijans will be trying to make it
Game time is 8:00 p.m. I two in a row. They beat Rose-
Homecoming
Banquet For
1936 Grads
Abbott Altar
Society To Hold
Celebration Sun. , ,
The public is cordially invited] R__17n
to attend the Annual Abbott
bud last week 14-6.
The starting offensive lineup
for the Trojans reads as fol-
lows.
Left end, 82-T. Webb, Sr.—
170.
Left tackle—Glen Lightfoot,
Jr.—235.
Left guard—Johnny Kubala,
Sr.—185,
Center—Daniel Jansky, Sr.—
170.
guard—Jimmy Kruse,
I Altar Society celebration to be
Conti-ary to what The News, held Sunday, September 23 at
stated last week, the banquet j the SPJST Hall, Lone Star Park
that is to be held on October ’
12 is only for the graduates of
1936. The other classes grad-
uating in the years ending in
6 will be welcome to attend the
game, and plan any activities
they desire, however they are
not invited to the banquet.
Whose Wallet
Wasn’t Stolen?
There is one man in town
who carries $60 in his billfold,
and he was quite put out Sat-
urday morning to find his wal-
let gone. He called the City Po-
lice who promptly picked up a
suspect and started questioning
him. However, the police hadn’t
quite managed to get a confes-
sion when the owner of the mis-
sing wallet called to repoi't:
“Sorry; I foi'got I changed
trousers this morning, and well
. . . my wallet wasn’t stolen
after all.”
Case dismissed.
-Jimmy Kolacek,
Waco SPJST Lodge
50th Anniversary
Celebration Sun.
Waco SPJST Lodge 66 Sunday
celebrated the 50th annivei-sary
of its founding with a golden
jubilee barbecue at Linden Hall
near Elm Mott.
Pi'ogram started at 10:30 a.
m. Barbecue was served from j pondents or publishers of your
12:30 p.m. to 7 p in. There was correct address” when the house
music and games during the number and street address was
afternoon followed by a dance1 missing.
at 8 p.m. | A Post Office l'uling requires
Roman Parma Jr. is president i that »hen » le«er or PaPer doe!
of Lodge 66 of SPJST (Slavonic I not show tlle house number and
in West,
Games and amusements will
begin at 2 p.m. and a “sump-
tuous” meal will be sei-ved at 5
p.m. There will be a surprise
mailed package auction, with
packages from Korea, Germany
and Everywhere, USA. At night
thei-e will be a dance at the hail
with music by Rejcek’s orches-
tra.
Teacher’s To
Meet Sept. 26
The McLennan County unit
of the Texas State Teachei's
Association will hold its first
meeting of the school year in j
Mart on September 26 at 7:30 i
p.m.
The faculty of the West Pub-
lic School? has enrolled lOO'.r
membership in the county unit,
Texas State Teachers Associa-
tion and the National Educa-
tion Association.
The topic of discussion Wed-
nesday night will deal with
plans for publicizing the need
for support of the teacher’s re-
tirement amendment that will
be v :U:d or. in Noveiv her.
Postal Rules
Require Street
Numbers
Post Office patrons no doubt
noticed their lettei-s and papers
stamped “Advise your corres-
Right tackle-
Soph.—185.
Right end—C. Webb, Jr—165,
Quarterback—Cecil Coffee, Sr.
— 190.
Right half—Danny Goates,
Sr—165.
Left half—A. P. Matus, Sr—
170.
Fullback—Johnny Slay, Jr.—
175.
For the Diamond Hill game
Section A of the stand will be
sold as reserved seats. Prices tor
tonight are as follows:
Reserved seats — Section A
of stands—$].00.
75c general admission.
35c .students.
300 Attend P-TA
Open House
Over 300 persons attended the
open house .sponsored by the
West P-TA at West High School
Tuesday night.
Mr. H. J. Kozelski, president
of the school board, gave a brief
report on the status of the West
Public Schools. Superintendent
M. F .Kruse introduced the fac-
ulty and Elementary Principal
J. W. King gave the P-TA ob-
jectives report.
Saturday Is
Kids Day-
Free Show
Kids’ Day will be celebrated
on Saturday, Sept. 22, with a
free picture show for all West
youngsters between the ages cf
6 and 17.
The movie, which is provided
by the Kiwanis Club, is for all
children of the West commu-
nity. It will begin at 8:45 at
Benevolent Order
of Texas.)
Two of three living charter
members of the lodge were the
guests of nonor Sunday and
were awarded 50-year pins. They
are Mi'S. Filipina Bartosh and
John Losak. M. J. (Mike) Ma-
zanec was not present, but a
grandson accepted a pin for
him.
the Palace Theater. The feature
of the "state i street aclcll'ess’ same will be re- stars Alan Ladd in “DRUM
turned to sender marked “In- .....
sufficient address.”
Heretofore the West Post Of-
fice has not observed this rul-
ing as it should have but the
Port Office Department has in-
structed all Post Offices to abide
by the ruling in the future. Your
coopei-ation will be appreciated.
BEAT” and Mr. Jim Tobola is
providing two special comedies
for the show. It should be over
at 11:30.
Cheer leadei's and members of
the pep squad will sell “Kids’
Day’ ribbons at the Diamond
Hill-West football game to pay
for the feature film.
his old friends in West and sur- quarter ended with no score in
rounding country. Mr. Rowley
will be l'emembered by all as he
was for many years the corre-
spondent tor the Times from
riding in a dark colored car were j Ross and has written many in-
scen by local nightwatchmen teresting items from that com-
aftcr they had broken into the1 munlty.
local Sinclair warehouse and
cm i icd out <l ,oi*'. 1 pic attended the Holiness camp
i„g become frightened at tills f ...... f w R„nHn„
point the thieves fled, aban-
Quite a number of West peo-
le attended the Holiness camp
meeting at Waco last Sunday,
'’".‘i''Voiron7mm"ihp among the number noticed be-
doning the oil taken from the ^ ^ ^ Jones
latter warehouse.
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48 YEARS AGO
Messrs. Ben Smith and Hen-
ry Green, who live on the Bog-
gess farm, were in town Satur-
day and report that the boll-
woi-ms arc playing the mischief
ylth the cotton crops in that
section. Between the two sen-
Mesdames G. L. Brown and Ed
Johnson, W. E. Holley and fam-
ily, Mr. and Mrs. John L. Miauk,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Butts, the
Smallwood boys and several
others. We found camped on
the grounds, J. J. Green and
family and Mesdar.ies G. W.
Christian and J. Demon.
the game.
With the fumible session over
the Panthers punted and West
took over on the Rosebud 46. It
was from here the Trojans
scored their first touchdown.
Coffee shook loose for 15 yards.
Slay got the block that cleared
the way. A roughing penalty put
the ball on the Panther 18. Slay
failed to gain and Matus made
2. That brought up third and 8
from tlie Rosebud 16. Coffee
made a nice run which ended
up with him tripping and stop-
ped on the 2 yard line. On the
next play Matus went over mak-
ing the score read: West 6,
Rosebud 0.
Coffee, remembering Scago-
ville, boottd g perfect extra
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West
Rosebud
1st downs
16
14
Rushing
209
220
Passing
0
48
Pass Attempts
3
7
Pass Complete
0
2
Pass intercepts
0
1
Fumbles
5
5
Fumbles lost
5
4
Penalty Yds.
40
15
No. punts
4
2
Punt average
28
27
Coffee: 45 yds
—3.3
average.
Matus: 73 yds.-
-6.6
average.
Slay: 88 yds.—8.8 average.
Goates: 3 yds.-
-1.0
average.
Tackles:
J. Kubala 9
J. Kruse—9
R. Kubala—7
Jansky—7
Slay—5
Littleton—5
Lightfoot—5
Matus—4
Coffee—3
Goates—3
Kolacek—I
Bremond Woman
Dies From Burns
Mrs. Jerry Koclan Jr. of Bre-
mond died of burns received
when she used gasoline to clean
her kitchen floors. Mrs. Kocian
was well known in West.
Mrs. Kocian’s sister-in-law
was in an adjoining room, and
she felt that heat from the hot
water heater must have caused
Mrs. Kocian’s clothing, which
had been splashed with gasoline,
to catch fire.
The accident occurred on Fri-
day, Sept, 7, and Mrs. Kocian
died in a Houston hospital on
Tuesday, Sept. 11. She is sur-
vived by ner husband and a
four and a half year old son.
Funeral services were held on
Thursday, Sept. 13.
Those from West attending
the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs.
Ted Kocian, Mrs. Hattie Ko-
cian and son Jodie, Mr. and
Mrs. August Kocian Sr., Mr. and
Mrs. Will Kocian, Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Lenart, Mrs. Ray Schroe-
der and son, Mrs. Floyd Wolf,
Mr. and Mrs. Rud Bazant and
children, Mr. and Mrs. Herman
Lander.
Mr. and Mrs. John Pavelka of
Abbott; Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Kocian, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Philosopher Favors Getting
Out Vote and Candidates
West Day At
Heart 0’ Texas
! Fair Oct. 2
Tuesday, October 2. has been
set as West Day at the Heart O’
Texas Fair. The West Longhorn
1 Club will participate in the
Grand Entry, and they will in-
troduce their sweetheart, Miss
Myrna Heitmiller. Miss Heit-
millcr and Miss Cecile Ncmecek
are scheduled to participate in
the barrel races.
Miss Adele Matula, the West
Longhorn’s Club nominee in the
Heart O’ Texas Queen contest
will also be presented.
The West Public Schools will
dismiss at 2:30 Tuesday after-
noon so that the children will
have ample opportunity to ac-
company their parents to the
Fair. School children have re-
ceived free fair passes for
"School Children’s Day” which
will be held on September 29.
The West Longhorn Club has
..Iso announced plans to parti-
dpate in the parade to be held j s>. »....... *ivu«n, mm. .>'■■■■ . «<..> w .... —, - .. -.-.h
in Waco o nSpemtement’tLHR I Laubert and Mrs. Ruby Mon- and help him fix it but it would
(Editor’s note: The Philoso-
pher discusses politics this week
—another subject he’s no au-
thority on.)
♦ •
Dear editar:
As you know. I'm no politi-
cian. It’s true I may not work
very hard or very productively
for a living, but still I’m no pol-
itician, as far as I’m concerned
how hard a man works is his
own business, and if he wants
to quit his job on the Suez Ca-
nal or turn the motor off on
his tractor and go fishing, it’s
nobody’s business, yours or
Egypt’s.
But that’s not what I started
out to say. What I started out
to say was that I've been read-
ing in newspaper lately and
hearing over the radio and tel-
evision about the importance of
getting out the vote in the No-
vember elections.
I even heard one candidate
-ay he'd rather have a man vote
against him than not vote at
all.
Well, now. I'll tell you. Aside
I from the fact most candidates
wouldn’t share that view pri-
vately, at least if I was in a
close race and a man who was
Kocian and children, Mr. and I opposed to me had a flat on
Mrs. Willie Kocian, Mrs. Alvin the way to the polls, I'd stop
in Waco on September 23. > cnef ol Waco.
I take me so lung tlie polls would
be closed before the job was
done, what a lot of people seem
to neglect in their campaign to
get out the vote Is a campaign
to get out tlie candidates.
That is, you take a race for
a minor office where two men
are runnin gand there ain’t a
nickel's worth of difference be-
tween tlie two and neither of
cm really suits you, 1 never have
been able to figure out what
the advantage was in trying to
make a decision. In most cases,
the country is bigger than tlie
candidates’, anyway, or we nev-
er would get anywhere.
I have noticed that generally
when there's something or
somebody to vote on, the voters
turn out. I’m not saying the vot-
ers don't have a duty to vote,
it’s an important duty, and as
far as I’m concerned it’s easier
and more fun than plowing, and
I neves miss a chance, but a
little more attention ought to be
devoted to the task of getting
out the candidates, too.
How his can be done though
is out of my department, It’s
my job just to be in favor si
better candidates and higher
farm prices. How to do it is
somebody’s else’s job. How
about you taking it?
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
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